A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

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Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

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Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians wh...

A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a trag...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time ho...

When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get us...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godz...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.